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Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance

Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance

Metaketa III Project Locations

Might natural resource governance improve if communities’ capacity were enhanced to monitor resource use? Might the welfare of natural resource users increase if there is enhanced community monitoring of that resource? Renewable resources are often subject to regulations that affect their use, and that involve representatives of local communities in monitoring their use. The Natural Resource Governance Metaketa round seeks to know whether augmenting the roles, responsibilities, and resources of community-based monitors reduces the quantity of renewable resources that are used and how this affects the welfare of users in the affected communities.

This Metaketa round was launched in Spring 2016 and will run until Spring 2020. This round awarded six projects—one each in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Liberia, Peru, and Uganda—ranging in funding from $150,000 to $250,000 provided by the UK's Department for International Development. All of the projects use common informational interventions focused on scrutinizing local resource management authorities and providing information to administrators and users in order to curb the overuse of the forest or water common pool resource. In addition, each project will involve at least one complementary intervention.

For additional information about the Metaketa Initiative, contact Jaclyn Leaver (EGAP Director of Research) at jleaver@berkeley.edu.

The Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance round has awarded six grants to innovative experimental research projects that seek to assess the role of community monitoring of natural resources, specifically forests and water. All of the projects use common informational interventions focused on scrutinizing local resource management authorities and providing information to administrators and users in order to curb the overuse of the forest or water common pool resource. In addition, each project will involve at least one complementary intervention.

The awards, provided by funding from the UK’s Department for International Development, range from $150,000 to $250,000. All projects will collaborate closely, in conjunction with the EGAP Metaketa III: Natural Resource Governance steering committee, with the goal of maximizing the consistency of designs, interventions, and outcome measurement across studies.

The Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) network is soliciting proposals for field experiments that seek to assess the roles of information to governments and/or community monitoring of resources on the governance of forests and/or freshwater. This Metaketa round is funded by the UK's Department for International Development and invites studies that address the central questions using two or more experimental treatment conditions—a common arm (or arms), to be implemented in a consistent manner by all supported projects, should seek to assess the effects of information provided to governments and/or monitoring by communities on the governance of common-pool forests and/or freshwater; and a second or third arm to be selected by individual research teams to be studied alongside the common treatment(s).

Awards will range from $150,000 to $250,000. Please see the link to the full request for proposals along with links to the submission form and budget template below.

Please submit all materials in a PDF format to grants@e-gap.org. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2016, 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time.

This call for expressions of interest is now closed. Thanks to all who applied. As mentioned below, this call sought to identify clusters of research projects with comparable interventions and outcome measures that would form the basis of the main Natural Resource Governance Metaketa request for proposals. Please see below for a summary of the EOIs we received and stay tuned for the full request for proposals that will be launched in the next few weeks!

The Evidence in Governance and Politics network (EGAP) is requesting expressions of interest (EOIs) for leading edge experimental research projects on the effective governance of common-pool resources in developing countries. This grant round is specifically designed to foster knowledge accumulation across studies and is supported by funding from the UK Department for International Development. Successful applicants will engage in closely related projects and adhere to a common set of research standards. For this round, EGAP will support 5-7 research projects that address a common theme. This request for short EOIs seeks to identify clusters of research projects with comparable interventions and outcome measures, which will form the basis of the main call.

Please submit your EOI in a PDF format to grants@e-gap.org. The deadline for submission is October 6, 2016, 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time.

Statement of PrinciplesAll projects in this Metaketa will abide by the following common set of principles above and beyond minimal requirements:

Protect staff: Do not put research staff in
harm’s wayInformed consent: Subjects exposed to treatments will know that information received is part of a research projectLocal partnership: Teams will partner with local civil society or governmental actors to
ensure appropriateness of informationNon-partisan interventions: Information
will be provided by a non-partisan source
and will reveal information about
incumbents regardless of partyApproval: Teams will seek approval from relevant electoral commissions, when appropriate